Working paper
The Waking Self Problem
Record-continuity, narrative identity, and the deflation of primitive persistence.
Overview
This paper asks why the subject who wakes identifies itself with the subject who fell asleep. It argues that conscious continuity is better explained by inherited subject-constituting traces, memory, bodily structure, practical orientation, and narrative continuity than by a primitive ego-substance.
Role in the RBO project
This item belongs to the Self and Continuity section of the RBO website. It should be read according to its status label: Working paper.
RBO is a BCT-derived philosophical framework for individuation. This item contributes to the project’s account of finite systems, stable traces/records, individuation, continuity, correction, and definite outcomes, while BCT remains the physics-facing core where quantum measurement is concerned.